Mail-sack fastening



(No Model.)

A. BRALEY. MAIL SACK FASTENING,

N0. 600,399. Patented Mar. 8,1898.

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ALEXANDER BRALEY, OF LANGSVILLE, OHIO.

MAIL-SACK FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 600,399, dated March 8, 1898. Application filed May 28,1897. Serial No. 638,577. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, ALEXANDER BRALEY, of Langsville, in the county of Meigs and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mail-sack Fastenings; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to mail-sack fastenings, the purpose of which is to facilitate the securing of the mouth of the sack when closed; and to this end the invention consists in the construction of the slotted loops through which the locking-strap is passed for securing a sack and in certain details of construction and arrangements of parts operating in connection therewith, as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a front View of the sack. Fig. 2 is a rear view of the same. Fig. 3 is a vertical section showing one of the strap loops or holders in side elevation. Fig. 4 is a perspective View of one of the loops with its keeper-plate detached and enlarged. Fig. 5 represents a longitudinal section through one end of the locking-strap and the swiveling pull-plate connected therewith.

1 indicates the sack, made of flexible material and preferably provided with a fiap 2 upon one side adapted to be turned over upon the other side and provided with strap-holding loops adapted to pass through both sides of the upper or open end of the sack for closing said end.

3 indicates one of the loops through which the locking-strap is passed for securing the mouth of the sack. These loops are made substantially in H form, having a central cross-bar 4, with the arms extending beyond said cross-bar adapted to pass through a perforated keeperplate 5 after having been passed through the material of the sack, said lower ends being fastened in place by being securely riveted over the keeper 5 in a manner that will be readily understood. The arms project above the cross-bar 4, terminating in inturned lips 6, lying in a plane parallel with the cross-bar 4 and slightly separated at their inner ends, forming a divided cross-bar which engages the locking-stiap 7 for holding the latter securely in place. One end of this locking-strap 7 is secured to the sack 1 in the usual manner, the other or free end being adapted to be passed through the eye in the loop formed by the cross-bar 3 and the divided bar 4:. For passing the strap through this eye in the loops it is provided at its free end with what I call a thumb or pull piece 8, pivoted to said free end and sufficiently thin to be passed through the slot between the ends of the divided outer bar of the loop in such manner that by taking hold of the piece 8 and turning the same upon end, as indicated in dotted lines, Fig. 3, and passing it edgewise through the slot between the arms of the divided bar the locking-strap can be readily drawn through without stopping to insert and pass the end thereof into and through each eye of the several loops separately, as is ordinarily required, an arrangement which greatly facilitates the passing of the strap through said loops.

To the back of the sack, preferably at the point where the locking-strap is secured by one of its ends, the lock 9 is also secured by means of an eye 10 at its base of sufficient length to permit the hasp ll to be readily` passed over a staple at 12, with which the locking-strap engages when in position for closing the mouth of the sack. By thus securing the lock permanently to the sack in this position it is always in position to engage the staple after the latter passes through the locking-strap, thereby further facilitatin g the operation of closing the sack and obviating all liability of displacement of the lock.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is- 1. The combination with a mail-sack, of

strap loops or staples having their outer transverse bars divided centrally of their length, and a locking-strap provided on its free end with a swiveling piece adapted to pass between the adjacent ends of the divided bars, substantially as described.

2. In a mail-sack, the combination with the folding flap thereof, of the locking-strap loops or staples having the divided outer trans- IOO Verse bars, the locking-straps engaging said specification in the presence of two subscrib- 1oops, and a swiveling thumb piece or plate ing witnesses.

on the free' end of said strap adapted to pass between the adjacent ends of the divided bai' I ALEXA NDER BRALEY' 5 for drawing the strap under said bars, subwitnesses:

stantially as described. W. P. PIERCE,

In testimony whereof I have signed this J. A. DAVIS. 

